Supreme Court of the United States. It also extends insurance coverage of abortion to state employees and women insured through Medicaid. Sara Feigenholtz served as Assistant Majority Leader from 2013 through 2019. She currently chairs the Adoption & Child Welfare Committee, and most recently served on the Appropriations-Human Services, Tourism, Hospitality and Craft, Mental Health, Environment, and Energy Committees. In 2018, Democrat J.B. Pritzker appointed Feigenholtz a member of the gubernatorial transition's Healthy Children and Families Committee. Special congressional election Feigenholtz came in third place to Mike Quigley in the Illinois's 5th congressional district special election, 2009 to fill the district seat vacated by Rahm Emanuel, who resigned to serve as President Barack Obama's Chief of Staff. Illinois Senate Feigenholtz assumed the office of State Senator for Illinois' 6th District on January 21, 2020. Feigenholtz was a guest of U.S Representative Mike Quigley at Joe Biden's 2023 State of the Union Address. Committees In the 102nd General Assembly, Feigenholtz was the Chair of the Appropriations - Human Services Committee; the Tourism and Hospitality Committee; and the Redistricting - Chicago North Committee. She also served on the Senate Appropriations - Business Regulations and Labor Committee; Behavioral and Mental Health Committee; Health Committee; Insurance Committee; Licensed Activities Committee; Pensions Committee; Subcommittee on Children & Family; and the Subcommittee on Medicaid. In the 103rd General Assembly, she is the Chair of the Financial Institutions Committee. She also serves on the Appropriations Committee; Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee; Behavioral and Mental Health Committee; Licensed Activities Committee; and Revenue Committee. Other In 2001 Feigenholtz was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame as a Friend of the Community. Electoral history References External links Representative Sara Feigenholtz (D) 12th District at the Illinois General Assembly By session: 100th, 99th, 98th, 97th, 96th, 95th, 94th, 93rd Representative Sara Feigenholtz constituency website Sara Feigenholtz for House Representative Sara Feigenholtz at Illinois House Democrats 1956 births Living people Politicians from Chicago American adoptees Jewish American state legislators in Illinois Democratic Party Illinois state senators Democratic Party members of the Illinois House of Representatives Women state legislators in Illinois Northeastern Illinois University alumni University of Illinois alumni Harvard Kennedy School alumni 21st-century American politicians 21st-century American women politicians 21st-century American Jews